Luck the next Couch? Griffin the next McNabb?

It's been a while since two QB's went No.1 and No.2 overall. The last time it happened was 1999 when Tim Couch and Donovan McNabb were the first two picks.

There's a lot of articles on this, but they all talk about how great Andrew Luck will be, and none I've found really compare Luck to Couch and Griffin to McNabb. They all seem to just point out that two QB's taken hasn't happened in a while, and this will be the first time since 99 for it to happen.

While neither Couch or McNabb won Super Bowls or MVP's, they both had great scouting reports going into the draft just like Luck & Griffin do now.

I think the best thing Couch ever really did was being a Heisman Trophy finalist, while McNabb made it to five NFC title games and a Super Bowl.

My question to you is, does Luck compare to Couch at all? Also, what about Griffin reminds you of McNabb?

I'm sorry, but Luck is weak. I don't see what everyone else does. His short passes wobble, has no velocity, accuracy is ok while dinking and dunking... good mobility. Very smart... but there have been 2,000 QBs that look like Luck coming out of college and they get passed over and undrafted... why this guy?

Had Jim Harbaugh not coached at Stanford, I'd be willing to bet he'd go undrafted.

Griffin on the other hand, does everything better than Luck and is only getting passed over for one reason. Still a stigma...

I wont make the comparison so much between McNabb or Couch. But I could see similar careers.

1. Andrew Luck has put to rest questions about his arm strength. I wrote a Luck/Robert Griffin III piece for the magazine this week and unearthed this tidbit from his March 21 workout on the Stanford campus. It was windy that day, with gusts around 15 mph, and Luck chose to throw into the wind.
"Never seen that before,'' said one veteran club official who was on the field at Stanford for the workout. "But I think he wanted to show everybody who had any question about his arm that they shouldn't. The great thing was, his last throw of the day, into the wind, was a go with the ball snapped from his own 30. He dropped back and released it around his 24. That ball went all the way to the goal line, about 75 yards in the air. Perfect spiral. He hit the receiver in stride, and he dropped it. And someone said, 'That's saying take that to Phil Simms.' You know, because Simms said he didn't have a great arm.''
Simms actually said last fall he didn't see "big-time NFL throws ... and not a tremendous amount of power.'' I didn't see much of it either, watching Luck tape last week from Stanford's game against Oregon last season; Stanford plays a lot of power football and a move-the-chains game. But this throw shows some of the power. Take a look.

You can bet that the Titans will be getting burned by Andrew Luck for a long time. However, I believe the Titans can contribute to making Luck's transition to the NFL a hard one. This is why D-line has to be our top priority.

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